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Slipping back; falling back into sin or error; sinning. Turn, O backsliding children, saith the Lord. Jer. iii. 14.

Playful raillery; banter. "He . . . indulged himself only in an elegant badinage." Warburton.

A plane used for cutting out grooves and inlaying strings and bands in straight and circular work.

Obscenity; lewdness.

Molding in imitation of beads.

The molding of a cornice immediately below the corona. Oxf. Gloss.

A bed and its furniture; the materials of a bed, whether for man or beast; bedclothes; litter.

Obliged; beholden. [Obs.] I was much bound and beholding to the right reverend father. Robynson (More's Utopia). So much hath Oxford been beholding to her nephews, or sister's children. Fuller.

, The state of being obliged or beholden. [Obs.] Sir P. Sidney.

The marking of the clothes with stripes or horizontal bands. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Of or pertaining to St. Bernard of Clairvaux, or to the Cistercian monks. -- n.

Command; order; a proclamation or notifying. "Do thou thy master's bidding." Shak.

The prayer for the souls of benefactors, said before the sermon.

Residence; habitation. Rowe.

A green pigment present in the bile, formed from bilirubin by oxidation.

That binds; obligatory. Binding beam (Arch.), the main timber in double flooring. -- Binding joist (Arch.), the secondary timber in double-framed flooring.

A metallic post attached to electrical apparatus for convenience in making connections.

A set screw used to bind parts together, esp. one for making a connection in an electrical circuit.

So as to bind.

The condition or property of being binding; obligatory quality. Coleridge.